Career
After completing his degree in law and international politics in Milan in 1988, Bruno began his career as a Protection Officer in Sudan, first in Gedaref and then in Khartoum. Between 1991 and 1993, he was posted to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where he oversaw the repatriation of South African refugees who had fled the apartheid regime. He then returned to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Headquarters, Geneva where he served as Senior Legal Advisor to the Africa Bureau.
He spent the subsequent four years back in Geneva as Head of the Legal Advice Unit, Africa Bureau, before being appointed United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Representative in Central African Republic from 2005 to 2008.
There he oversaw the repatriation of Chadian and Sudanese refugees, among others Bruno then undertook a number of special missions in Darfur, South Africa (Zimbabwean refugees) and Dadaab, Kenya.
He became Representative for Somalia in 2009, based in Nairobi, and between 2011 and 2012 managed the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees emergency response to the famine in Somalia, the worst since 1992. In 2013 Bruno moved on to Yemen as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Representative a.i. to deal with multiple refugee and internal displacement situations.
He also deals with the continuing mixed migration crisis from the Horn of Africa to the Gulf countries for which Yemen is the pivotal transit hub.Bruno Geddo was later appointed as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Representative to Iraq in 2015.